Chapter 714 Eight Thousand to Zero Daqingshan, the temporary camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Ming Dynasty, a fierce battle is being staged.If Baltu did not temporarily retreat when Xu Biao's troops arrived, but directly attacked, even if the cavalry units of the Sixth Division of the whole family army could cover the retreat of Emperor Chongzhen's Luan, then the losses would definitely be very serious.However, it was a pity that Baltu watched the Manchu Eight Banners retreat, and the Mongol army under his command suffered serious losses, so he turned to Duoduo, who was in charge of the pursuit, for instructions.In Liangjian, Li Yunlong has a very classic line: "Fight by asking for instructions, and you can't catch up with greeting when you eat." ”In fact, the same is true for Baltu, who missed the weakest period of his family's cavalry, after a long march of three days and two nights, Xu Biao's cavalry was not only exhausted, but more importantly, the heavy weapons carried by the cavalry did not keep up.By the time Duoduo arrived at Daqing Mountain, the best time had already passed.After more than an hour of rest, the soldiers of the whole family army have somewhat recovered some physical strength, and similarly, the wounded of the remnants of the Ming army have also been treated by the medical staff of the whole family army, and they have also been given dry food for the whole family army, supplemented some physical strength, and most importantly, the heavy weapons of the cavalry of the whole family army, sixteen mortars and thirty-two heavy machine guns have successfully arrived in Daqingshan.The cavalry under Xu Biao's department, like the Sixth Division, did not change its automatic rifles, not even bolt-action rifles, mainly because the Sixth Division is still an enclave of Quanxu and is not directly bordered, and ammunition supply is a serious problem.It took a lot of effort for Quan Xu to send 150 60-mm mortars, 228 12.7-caliber heavy machine guns, and 350 light machine guns.There are also not too many bullets, less than 10 million bullets in total, and even fewer shells, only 50,000.In this era, this is still a large-scale transport team, however, the whole family army successfully traveled from Shandong, to Henan, and then through Shanxi, all the way to Huaiyuan Town.After passing through the five provinces of the Ming Dynasty, if you enter the land of no one, it can be seen that the Ming Dynasty's control over the local area has existed in name only.However, the advantage was that the whole family army had good weapons against the Mongol cavalry.When Dordor ordered Baltu to attack, Baltu had no choice, so he took the plunge and threw more than 4,000 men into a tentative attack on the left and right flanks.The son of Tushetu Khan, the Great Khan of the Baltu Khalkha Mongols, and the niece and son-in-law of Huang Taiji, he married a widow of Daishan, who is now also a county horse of the Qing State.As the most powerful part of the Khalkha Mongols, the strength of the Tushetu tribe is really not blown.The eight thousand Mongol cavalry suddenly divided, divided into two ways, like a pair of huge bull horns, and slammed into the heavenly army and the whole family army with a thunderous force, and the flying knight on horseback straightened his waist and raised the riding bow in his hand.Their riding bows were different from the heavy arrows of the Manchu riding bows, their riding bows were lighter, their armor-piercing ability was not strong, and the range was generally about 120 to 150 meters.They will not rush to the front of the Ming army like the Manchu cavalry, dismount and raise heavy arrows to shoot at the Ming formation, they still adopt the traditional Mongol tactics, with light cavalry line the huge infantry phalanx to release arrows, with a round of arrow rain to continue to kill and injure the opponent, bloodlet the opponent, create panic and chaos, when the opponent is disrupted by this endless attack, suddenly kill, with lightning speed to defeat the opponent in one fell swoop.Of course, in the face of the convergence of the remnants of the Ming Army's Northern Expeditionary Army and the cavalry of the whole family army, the number was 20,000 smaller, and Baltu did not think that he could annihilate the Ming army in one fell swoop, but carried out a tentative attack.Although Baltu was trying, the whole family army was not polite, and directly made a ruthless move, 32 heavy machine guns were arranged into cross-fire positions, and 16 mortars were also placed on the slopes of the mountain with their backs to Daqingshan.A condescending mortar position with a good view and a range of five thousand meters, which can cover the entire battlefield.......When the Mongol cavalry entered the firing range of the mortars, the sixteen mortars began to fire shells at the Mongol cavalry at the fastest speed.The cannonballs smashed into the middle of the charging Mongol cavalry with a terrifying whistling sound, and the sky fell apart.I saw a flash of fire, a loud bang, and the shrapnel of the explosion tore the armor of the Mongolian cavalry without delay, and the armor on their bodies, under the shock wave of the shell, seemed to be as fragile as paper paste.There were also Mongolian cavalrymen at the center of the explosion, flying into the air like ants, turning into strange fragments and falling one after another, and the ground was sprinkled with patches of blood red.The shrapnel-torn Mongols clutched their blood-gushing limbs and internal organs flowing from their chests, and let out a wail like a dying beast, a terrible scream that made everyone's bones tremble!
The Mongols, who boasted of their bravery, turned pale with fright, and they wanted to retreat, but unfortunately, once the cavalry charged, it was like a flood, and all the cavalry soldiers understood that in this case, the retreat was even worse, and they could only rush forward.Although the rate of fire of the mortars was fast, it was impossible to completely stop the charge of more than 8,000 Mongols, and this shelling caused heavy casualties to the Mongols, and at least thousands of Mongol cavalry died on the way to the charge.Of course, Duoduo's face became very gloomy, the artillery of the Ming army was more powerful, the rate of fire was faster, and these artillery seemed to be not afraid of exploding.In just a few years, the artillery development of the Ming army is becoming more and more advanced, which is the most terrifying, he also participated in the battle of Guangning, in the battle of Guangning, although the artillery of the Ming army is sharp, most of them are still solid shells, and now the Ming army no longer fires solid shells, all of them are flowering shells.If time goes on, the Manchu iron cavalry in front of the Ming artillery will become a joke.What did Duoduo not know was that their Manchu Iron Cavalry had now become a joke.When the Mongolian cavalry braved the cannonballs and rushed into the front of the Ming army a thousand paces, at this time, Xu Biao rode on horseback with a relaxed face, and gave a faint order: "Everyone, prepare to pursue!"
”Hearing Xu Biao's words, Lu Xiangsheng didn't know what was wrong.Why did all the people in Quanxu become so crazy?
Of course, the madness of the whole family army is based on their absolute strength, not without a purpose.At this moment, the sound of "da-......da" sounded, and thirty-two chains of fire were sprayed out from the machine gun position of the whole family army, and in the real battlefield, the bullets fired by the machine guns were invisible, and the machine gunners would add tracer bullets to the bullets in order to correct the trajectory, so that the bullets could be seen and the shooting deviation could be corrected.What's more, if a 12.7 mm bullet hits a leg, the leg is broken, and when it hits the arm, the arm falls off, and it hits the chest, and it only needs to be hit more than three bullets in a row, and it will be directly cut in half.Thirty-two rays of fire shot into the charging cavalry position, this power was more shocking than the mortar bombardment, this aura was like the scythe of death, and wherever it passed, those cavalry on horseback were cut in two in an instant.The war horse held half of the corpse, still charging forward, this scene was very shocking.At this time, the charging Mongol cavalry fell layer by layer like wheat cut by a combine harvester.Baltu turned pale with fright, and in his heart, as the son of Tushetu Khan, he went to the battlefield at the age of fifteen, and he had fought both the Khalkha Mongols and the Cossack cavalry, large and small battles, no less than a hundred battles, and it was definitely not an exaggeration for him to spend the rest of his life in a hundred battles.Heaven and earth conscience, he really has never seen such a cruel scene.Not to mention that he was frightened, even Lu Xiangsheng was frightened.With the combination of mortars and machine guns, the Mongol cavalry had no chance to rush within 300 paces in front of the Ming army, so it is no wonder that Xu Biao was very confident in preparing his subordinates to pursue.When the shells fall on the battlefield and blow up the Mongolian cavalry to pieces, the bullets fall into the Mongolian cavalry formation, and they will be torn to pieces like the Mongolian cavalry, and the broken limbs and flesh on the battlefield are scattered all over the ground, which is extremely tragic.Many Mongol cavalry hurriedly raised their thick shields, which were made of thick logs and nailed with a layer of iron leaves, which ordinary crossbow arrows and even lead bullets could not penetrate at all.This kind of shield is specially used by the Mongolian cavalry to break the formation, but there is no use, the bullet spirals and shoots, hitting the shield, sneering, the bullet pierces which, is pierced out of a small hole, the deformed bullet hit the flesh and blood behind the shield, chiseled a fist-sized hole, a large stream of blood mixed with foamy minced flesh sprayed straight in the shield, the soldiers who were shot fell down one by one.The heavy machine guns were very effective against such a dense charge of cavalry, and in just a quarter of an hour, at least four or five thousand cavalrymen were shot in front of the Ming army.There was no need for Baltu to give orders at all, and the remaining Mongol cavalry fled in fright.But the problem is that it's easy to want to retreat when you rush in, and there is no door.The fire of the heavy machine gun was uninterrupted, and it had an effective range of 1,500 meters and 2,000 meters, which even a cavalry would take two or three minutes.Duoduo's face became very ugly, he was already frightened stupid.The bullets and shells hit the Mongol cavalryman, and he held water in his hands.More than 8,000 cavalrymen eventually escaped from the range of machine guns and mortars, and less than 300 horsemen finally stopped as the artillery fired.The entire battlefield fell into an eerie silence.It's not an eerie tranquility, but the sound of soldiers of the Ming army and cavalry of the whole family army pumping cold air everywhere.The heavy machine gun fire frightened not only the Mongol cavalry, but also the Ming soldiers.It's just shocking.Although Xu Biao knew that the heavy machine gun was very effective against the cavalry, it was a pity that the Sixth Division had not yet engaged in a real battle, and this actual battle made him dumbfounded.Eight thousand to zero